2nd Boy With Cancer To Get Hunting Trip

Another boy with cancer has been granted his wish to hunt in Alaska. And that worries the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which came under fire from animal rights groups for granting a Minnesota boy’s request to hunt bear.

“Doctors said this child needs to believe he gets to go,” Michele Atkins, director of Make-A-Wish of Western Pennsylvania, said Thursday. “This is real important. This is all he’s wanted to do all his life.”

The 17-year-old boy, whom Atkins would not identify, has bone cancer. She said Make-A-Wish agreed in November to send him to Alaska when the two-week moose-hunting season opens this September.

Earlier this month, the Make-A-Wish chapter in Minnesota sent another 17-year-old boy with a brain tumor to Alaska to hunt bear, despite protests.